Fassil Demissie, Ph.D is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy at DePaul University, USA. He is currently the Co-Editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and is the author of Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (2012).

• 1. Introduction Fassil Demissie 2. Deconstructing invisibility: race and politics of visual culture in Brazil Julio Cesar de Tavares 3. Retaking the Middle Passage: glimpses of a modern African diaspora in Brazil Wangui Kimari 4. Afro-Brazilian poetry: a laboratory of identity Cyril Vettorato 5. Blackness in movement: identifying with capoeira Angola in and out of Brazil Scott Head and Heloisa Gravina 6. The jogo de capoeira and the fallacy of ‘creole’ cultural forms T.J. Desch Obi 7. A Bença: The Blessings of the Bando de Teatro Olodum Cheryl Sterling 8. Food and spirits: religion, gender, and identity in the ‘African’ cuisine of Northeast Brazil Allan Charles Dawson 9. Black leaders and their concept of freedom in nineteenth century northeast Brazil Tshombe Miles 10. The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: an insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement Merle L. Bowen 11. Race talk in a public high school in Salvador Bahia: discourses of power and resistance Jenifer Crawford-Lima, Jadiel Navarro Lima, Luís Carlos Ferreiro and Adilbênia Freire Machado

Fassil Demissie, Ph.D is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy at DePaul University, USA. He is currently the Co-Editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and is the author of Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (2012).

• 1. Introduction Fassil Demissie 2. Deconstructing invisibility: race and politics of visual culture in Brazil Julio Cesar de Tavares 3. Retaking the Middle Passage: glimpses of a modern African diaspora in Brazil Wangui Kimari 4. Afro-Brazilian poetry: a laboratory of identity Cyril Vettorato 5. Blackness in movement: identifying with capoeira Angola in and out of Brazil Scott Head and Heloisa Gravina 6. The jogo de capoeira and the fallacy of ‘creole’ cultural forms T.J. Desch Obi 7. A Bença: The Blessings of the Bando de Teatro Olodum Cheryl Sterling 8. Food and spirits: religion, gender, and identity in the ‘African’ cuisine of Northeast Brazil Allan Charles Dawson 9. Black leaders and their concept of freedom in nineteenth century northeast Brazil Tshombe Miles 10. The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: an insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement Merle L. Bowen 11. Race talk in a public high school in Salvador Bahia: discourses of power and resistance Jenifer Crawford-Lima, Jadiel Navarro Lima, Luís Carlos Ferreiro and Adilbênia Freire Machado

Fassil Demissie, Ph.D is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy at DePaul University, USA. He is currently the Co-Editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and is the author of Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (2012).

• 1. Introduction Fassil Demissie 2. Deconstructing invisibility: race and politics of visual culture in Brazil Julio Cesar de Tavares 3. Retaking the Middle Passage: glimpses of a modern African diaspora in Brazil Wangui Kimari 4. Afro-Brazilian poetry: a laboratory of identity Cyril Vettorato 5. Blackness in movement: identifying with capoeira Angola in and out of Brazil Scott Head and Heloisa Gravina 6. The jogo de capoeira and the fallacy of ‘creole’ cultural forms T.J. Desch Obi 7. A Bença: The Blessings of the Bando de Teatro Olodum Cheryl Sterling 8. Food and spirits: religion, gender, and identity in the ‘African’ cuisine of Northeast Brazil Allan Charles Dawson 9. Black leaders and their concept of freedom in nineteenth century northeast Brazil Tshombe Miles 10. The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: an insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement Merle L. Bowen 11. Race talk in a public high school in Salvador Bahia: discourses of power and resistance Jenifer Crawford-Lima, Jadiel Navarro Lima, Luís Carlos Ferreiro and Adilbênia Freire Machado